Activation and proliferation profiles of M.tuberculosis specific dual functional CD4+T cells from smear negative pulmonary TB patients

• Ahmed Esmael ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: esmaelahmi9@gmail.com

  Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0310-0280

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• Adane Mihret,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GeorgiaUnited States of America

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• Tamrat Abebe,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

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• Daniel Mussa,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Sebsib Neway,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2033-5874

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• Joel Ernst,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Experimental Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Jyothi Rengarajan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GeorgiaUnited States of America

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• Liya Wassie ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Liya Wassie, Rawleigh Howe

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

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• Rawleigh Howe

  Contributed equally to this work with: Liya Wassie, Rawleigh Howe

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

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